Scientific Research Projects
Rau and Stier (2019): ‘Die Echokammer-Hypothese: Fragmentierung der Öffentlichkeit und politische Polarisierung durch digitale Medien?’ Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Rau and Guess, (2019): ‘Online News Consumption: Typology of Consumption Patterns’ (Princeton University, working paper)
Rau, (2018): ‘Digital Media as a Counterpublic – the Rise of the AfD in Germany’ (Master Dissertation at the Oxford Internet Institute; unpublished)
Rau, (2017): ‘Echokammern in Social Media – Eine empirische Untersuchung anhand des Amoklaufs von München’ (Bachelor Dissertation at the University of Cologne; unpublished)
Additional Involvement
Acknowledged as a Research Assistant in: Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard (2018): ‘Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation’. Computational Propaganda Working Paper 2018
Other Publications
Rau (2019): ‘Totgesagte cybern länger: Die AfD und das Flüchtlingsjahr 2015.’ Hamburger Wahlbeobachter (in process of being published)
Rau and Simon (2019): ‘How Extremist Aim To Set The Media Agenda – Case Study: German’s Identitarian Movement.’ European Journalism Observatory
Rau and Simon (2019): ‘Agenda Setting im Internet: Rechts(außen) führt, der Rest folgt.’ Hamburger Wahlbeobachter
Rau and Simon (2019): ‘Have Digital Counterpublics Given Us Donald Trump, The AfD, And Brexit?’ European Journalism Observatory
Rau and Simon (2019): ‘Willkommen im Zeitalter digitaler Gegenöffentlichkeiten.’ Hamburger Wahlbeobachter
Rau (2018): ‘A threat to democracy? The impact of information technologies on elections’. Essay prepared for the Aspen Germany Workshop 2018 ‘Present at the new Creation? Tech. Power. Democracy.‘, 28.-29 September 2018, Berlin (unpublished manuscript)
